Re: THEORY: more questions

--- Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...>
wrote:

> > It's
> > totally transparent to me. As with any verb
> > of that sort (sing, tell, read, etr.)
>
> Ah, but there's the rub: it's not a verb of
> that sort to me.
Really? It's not a verb of communication that
takes dative of person and accusative of thing?

> The verb 'write' takes a direct object alright,
> but one which refers to what's written.
Yeah. And? Oh - I see. For you, a DO is
requíred.
Only "sing me" doesn't make sense in Merkin; the
bare dative is regularly used with all those
verbs when a DO is present "sing me a song" =
"sing a song to me", which sounds weird. :S

> ObConlang: ... nah... wait till I'm ready :)
Gr!

I'm sure that in Kerno any of those verbs can
postpend a bare dative pronoun, cantami,
ycrivemi, etc. You generally switch to a preverb
and infixed pronoun with DO, though: domcanta yan
gancièn, domecrive yan garta.

Padraic.


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